This is My World

I got a forward from my mom today.  I don’t normally read forwards, but my inbox was pretty empty.  It’s 11 things that Bill Gates says high school students will not learn in school.  I read it.  It’s actually pretty good advice for high school students.  So, in the Back to School spirit, here are the 11 things I think every high school student should read.  I especially like rule number 6.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world doesn’t care about your
self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters.. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

If you can read this -Thank a teacher!
If you can read this in English thank a soldier!!!

Well, as my blog is building, I seem to have a lot of stories involving different family members.  It has recently come to my attention that I have no stories posted on my blog involving my mom.  So, after searching through my pictures, I realized that she likes to give the camera person the finger a lot.  However, as my cousin and I learned one Mother’s Day, if you get her drunk, she doesn’t flip the camera off.  Story continues below the photo!

See around Mother’s Day 2006, I was broke and so was my cousin.  However, we really wanted to get my mom something for Mother’s Day.  We didn’t know what to get her, so we got her drunk.I’m pretty sure everyone had fun that night. 

Since Mom lives next door, we let her walk home.  She started off okay.  Then she started swerving left toward the road.  After a while she staggered back toward the house.  Then, she swerved almost to the road and was coming pretty close to the bank that lead directly to pavement.  All of the sudden, she did an abrupt right face and marched straight toward her front door and made it inside.

Think that was funny? You should have been watching it.  My cousin and I had our heads hung out the front door like cartoons trying not to get caught watching something.  We were laughing so hard.   I’m surprised we didn’t fall out the front door.

Don’t get me wrong, my mom’s not an alcoholic.  She rarely goes beyond one or two beers.  That night however, was different.

Cheers, Becky